I swear, this is starting to turn into a string of diary entries all about ssh. (Although, I must admit that I only came back here to check on some previous writing related to that same topic). Thanks for certifying me jolan! (It scares me that people are reading this and actually acting on it; then again I only got motivated to rediscover my password after jolan mentioned the site months back).

OK - so current status, and what I wanted to post on. A FRIGGING SCPONLY SHELL ALREADY EXISTS! Don't get me wrong, I think this is AWESOME!!! I do find it weird that it's actually _called_ scponly too.

URL is: http://www.sublimation.org/scponly/

Moreover, this guy has been cranking at it for a while and not only has sftp going, but also has WinSCP support & chroot abilities. As tet would say, tres cool. And check it out, there's even another similar project:

http://pizzashack.org/rssh/

rssh explicitly states no BSD support [tell me how braindead that seems when it's meant to work with OpenSSH that was designed primarily on and for a BSD], but I guess it can be cobbled together to work. Not sure if the "real" scponly works, I've only downloaded and started poking so far [license is _almost_ BSD, but not - it'd be really nice if people stuck to standard license paradigms y'know?].

Anyway very exciting, I am going to have to play around with this a bit.

Blurted out my previous stuff in front of some others, and learned that I'm not in a vaccuum as jolan had already read my previous paper-jot, pedro seemed to think I should try to formalize it a bit as it sounds like an interesting idea. So, I'll do just that [which is one of the reasons I came back here].

Nice to see that one of the pieces might be a bit better fulfilled than I had conceived already though, and heck I didn't even lift a finger. I just wonder why the hell I never found it before [I swear that in my extensive googling in the past I must have tried scponly before]. Seriously, scponly, plus resume, plus maybe some more advanced file perms thingy would be super neato. Astalabyebye to FTP clingers-on for just a couple of features.

On a different note - there was a time [long ago] when I felt frustrated because I didn't have many interesting ideas to work on. Now that I seem to be having a few, I find it substantially more frustrating to have interesting ideas, and not be able to implement them. But hey, I'm working on it - now up to chapter 4 exercises in pcp; oh and pakuachang begins next week r0^r!!